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Stephen Leonard settled in Lowville, early in 1805, and with the exception of a short interval, was engaged in mercan- tile business. As one of the firm of J. H. & S. Leonard, he was largely concerned in the manufacture of spirits, potash, &c., in milling, and in the trade in live stock, incident to the former. The first dis- tillery in Lowville, was begun by this firm, in the fall of 1804, and the last one in the county, which had belonged to them, was burned February 16, 1842. He was many years trustee of the Academy, an original trustee of the Presbyterian society of the village, and
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for a long period treasurer of the Lewis County Bible Society. He married a daughter of General W. Martin, of Mar- tinsburgh, and died May 13, 1869, aged 86 years .*
Samuel Austin Talcott was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1790, graduated at Williams college in 1809, studied law, in part, with Thomas R. Gold, and came to Lowville in 1812, where he entered into a law partnership with Bostwick, and re- mained three or four years. He then removed to Utica, and his politics be- coming favorable to the then Republi- can party, he was appointed Feb. 12, 1821, to the office of Attorney General, which he held eight years. He died in New York March 19, 1836, the admira- tion and sorrow of his friends. Few men in our country have evinced more brilliant talents, a clearer perception of the great principles of law, or a more powerful and convincing eloquence than Mr. Talcott. His career was an im- pressive warning to those who appre- hend no peril from the wine-cup.
Fortunatus Eager was from Lunen- burg, Vt., and came the second or third year of the settlement. After trading about three years, he became a partner of William Card, and for several years he carried on the manufacture of potash quite extensively, thus aiding the settlers to means for paying for their lands. He went to Canada, near Brockville, in 1809, where he died. Mr. Card was a nephew of Rev. Peleg Card, an early Baptist min- ister, and died in Greenbush.
Major Melancthon Woolsey Welles was born in Stamford, Conn., Dec. 6, 1770; was some years a merchant at Albany, and removed from Lanesboro, Mass., in 1807. In 1809, he came to Lowville where he resided till his death, Feb. 27, 1857, aged 86 years. Mr. Welles was a
son of the Rev. Noah Welles, and a de- scendant of Thomas Welles, whose son was Governor of Connecticut in 1655. He was related to the late Commodore Woolsey of Utica, and well known to the citizens of the county. From near the time of his removal to about 1830, he kept an inn at Lowville village. His dwelling was built at the time when it was hoped that the old academic build- ing might become a court-house. It is the same as that now owned by George D. Brown.
Ela Collins was born in Meriden, Conn., Feb. 14, 1786, and died at Lowville, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1848. His parents were Gen. Oliver Collins and Lois Cowles. His father served seven years in the Revolutionary war as an officer in the Massachusetts troops. Soon after the close of the war he removed to Oneida county, N. Y., and purchased a fine farm, near New Hartford, upon which he re- sided until his death, Aug. 14, 1838. At the beginning of the last war with Great Britain he held the commission of Briga- dier-General and commanded during the war, the militia of Oneida, Jefferson and Lewis counties. He succeeded Gen. Jacob Brown in the command of Sack- ett's Harbor, which position he retained till near the close of the war. Ela Col- lins was educated at the Clinton Acade- my. He read law in the office of Gold & Sill, at Whitesboro, and commenced law practice at Lowville in 1807. He married Maria Clinton, daughter of the Rev. Isaac Clinton, July 11, 1811, who died in Cincinnati, Sept. 5, 1871, aged 81 years. They had eleven children. On the 15th of March, 1815, he was appoint- ed District Attorney for the district composed of Lewis, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties, which office he held several years, until the districts were re- duced to single counties. He was then appointed to the same office for Lewis county, successively until 1840, when he
*Chauncey Leonard, brother of Stephen Leonard, died in Pennsylvania. Phineas, another brother, resid- ed in Denmark until his death. March 25, 1870, aged 74 and Reuben died in Brantford, Upper Canada.
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resigned, having held the office for 25 years. He was elected in 1814, a mem- ber of the Assembly, and was in the Leg- islature when peace was proclaimed. He was a member of the N. Y. Constitutional Convention of 1821. In 1822 he was elected from the double district of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Oswego, as a member of the 18th Congress. He was Secretary of the last Congressional caucus for the nomination of President, when William H. Crawford was nomi- nated. He was for many years a trus- tee of the Lowville Academy.
As a lawyer, Mr. Collins attained a high position. He was an excellent and successful advocate and criminal prose- cutor. His manner of presenting a case to a jury was clear, forcible and admira- bly fair. His speeches were always sensible, candid and to the point. And he had rare ability in presenting the questions at issue, in stating the facts, and in argument upon them. His integ- rity was unsullied, and his manners were simple, cordial and unaffected. In poli- tics he was a Republican of the school of Jefferson. For several years he voted the local Anti-Masonic ticket. He was highly respected and popular through- out the section of the State where he was known.
William Collins, one of his sons, studied law with his father ; was ap- pointed District Attorney of Lewis county in 1845, and held two years, when he was elected to the 30th Con- gress. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and died there.
Francis Collins, another son, entered at West Point as cadet, in 1841 ; became Second Lieutenant in the 4th Artillery July 1, 1845, and First Lieutenant by brevet, "for gallant and meritorious con- duct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco," on the 27th of August, 1847. In the former of these he was wounded. He became First Lieutenant
in September, 1847, and resigned Decem- ber 11, 1850. He settled as a lawyer in Columbus, Ohio, where he died a year or two ago.
The youngest son of Ela Collins was Isaac Clinton Collins, who was born in Lowville, January 2, 1824, graduated at Yale college in 1846, and settled in Cin- cinnati as a lawyer in 1848, becoming a member of the firm of Matthews, Keys & Collins, and in 1853, in the firm of Col- lins & Herron. In October, 1857, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature, and served in 1858-'59. In October, 1859, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1873, was a can- didate for Governor on the ticket of the " Peoples' Party." After this he identi- fied himself with the Democratic party, and in 1876, was a delegate to the Na- tional Convention. He died at Cincin- nati, after a short illness, July 29, 1879.
Russell Parish was born in Branford, Connecticut, Oct. 27, 1789,and graduated at Yale college, in 1813, in the same class with Professor Fisher, who was lost in the Albion, Professors Olmstead, Doug- lass and Mitchell, and Judges Badger, Longstreet and Kane, and other distin- guished persons. He was employed in November of the same year as Principal of the Lowville Academy, and in 1814, he began the study of law with Mr. Bostwick. In due time he was admitted to the Bar, and spent the remainder of his life in Lowville, chiefly in the practice of his profession in which he was regarded as learned, judicious and able. An incident in the professional life of Mr. Parish has some degree of permanent interest.
The first trial for a capital crime in the county, was that of Rachel, a serv- ant of I. W. Bostwick, for setting fire to her master's house, and was held before Judge Platt, about 1821. The accused was about eighteen years old, and of bad temper, but as the damage had been
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slight, the public sympathy in her behalf was strong. The sentiment of that day had not favored commutations or par- dons, and an execution must have un- avoidably followed conviction. The defense was conducted by Micah Ster- ling and Russell Parish, and as the trial commenced, the latter evinced an elastic buoyancy of spirit which appeared to be unwarranted by the occasion, until it appeared upon the reading of the in- dictment a second time, that the prose- cuting attorney had accidentally omit- ed the word " inhabited " before " dwell- ing," and that the trial had reached such a stage that amendment was not admis- sible. The prisoner upon learning that she would not be hung, from abject ter- ror evinced the most extravagant joy, which met with a sympathizing response in the hearts of many present. She was subsequently tried for arson of lower degree, and died in State's prison.
In 1846, Mr. Parish represented the county in the Convention for revising the Constitution. He died February 21, 1855, and the Trustees of the Acade- my and members of the Bar testified their respect for his character by calling meetings to express their sympathy with his family and by attending his funeral in a body.
Charles Dayan was born July 16, 1792, at Amsterdam, New York, and is a son of Charles Dayan, an Austrian emigrant, who died in 1793, leaving him an infant in charge of his widowed mother, in very indigent circumstances. He re- mained with Zachariah Peterson till fourteen years of age, and went to El- liott's Mills in Amsterdam, from whence, in August, 1809, he came to Lowville. After working at chopping, and upon Heman Stickney's oil-mill (on the site of Mr. Gowdy's tannery), he began going to school at the Academy. He was then entirely ignorant of the rudiments of learning and was placed at first in a
class of small children, but by great in- dustry and the aid of a Mr. Obits, an old friend of his father in Germany, he made such rapid progress that in a few months he was able to engage a school in Rutland. He taught four winters in the same district at a monthly price of twenty bushels of wheat, which he sold at $2 per bushel. He entered Bostwick's law office in 1816, and in 1819, was ad- mitted to practice.
From this time, till within a few years, he has been actively engaged in his profes- sion at Lowville, except when withdrawn by the duties of the public offices to which he has been elected, having been at dif- ferent times in partnership with Edmund Henry, Hiram Carpenter, Russell Par- ish and Ziba Knox. In 1820, Mr. Dayan was appointed by LeRay and the Brown family, an agent for settling certain lands east of the river, and he con- tinued agent of the former until 1833. In 1826, he was elected to the State Senate to serve out the unexpired term of two years, occasioned by the resigna- tion of George Brayton, and in the extra session, convened in the fall of 1828, to adopt the Revised Statutes, he was elect- ed October 7th, President pro. tem. of the Senate. As the office of Governor was then filled by Pitcher, elected as Lieu- tenant Governor, Mr. Dayton became charged with the duties of the latter office. He presided over the Senate until its adjournment, December 10th, and was virtually Lieutenant Governor till January 1, 1829.
On the 26th of January, 1829, he be- came a candidate for Comptroller, against Silas Wright, Jr., in the Legis- lative Republican caucus, in which Wright received 58, Dayan 26, G. B Baldwin 12, N. Pitcher 4, and G. Sudam I vote.
Mr. Dayan was elected to the 22d Congress (1831-'33) from the 20th district and in 1835, and 1836, was elected to
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the Assembly upon the canal issue. Mr. Francis Seger was then in the Senate, and to these two gentlemen are we large- ly indebted for the passage of the act for constructing the Black River canal, a work, which, after more than twenty years of delay, was at length completed. On the 14th of March, 1840, Dayan was appointed District Attorney for Lewis county, and held this office five years, discharging its duties with his accus- tomed discretion and ability. Several years before his death, Mr. Dayan was compelled to retire from business from the infirmities of age, but he still re- mained in comfortable health and both intelligent and earnest in conversation when the subject turned upon the events of early years. He died December 25, 1877, at the age of 85.
Paul Abbott was born in Pomfret, Conn., in May, 1783, and with his father moved into Clinton, Oneida county, in 1799. Buying his time of his father he served an apprenticeship with Mr. Joseph Blake, of Whitestown, as a tailor. He settled in Lowville in 1805, and opened a shop and kept goods in his line of business. He first lived in the Captain Rogers house, nearly opposite the Baptist church, which was the first framed dwelling-house erected in the village. He opened his shop in a small building on the south corner of his lot opposite the Academy grounds. He erected the brick house, afterwards the residence of the Knox family, and it was the second brick house erected in the village, Captain Rogers having built the first one on Shady Avenue, on the site of the present residence of Mrs. John Doig. He had the walls of the house up and was busy putting on the roof timbers when he received the call sum- moning him with his command of troops to go to Sackett's Harbor to assist in repelling the expected invasion of the British troops. Leaving the building
unfinished, and a sick wife and young babe, he obeyed the summons, and was gone from his home almost two months. He was Chairman of the Building Com- mittee of the old Academy, and in the discharge of his duties as such, he caught the cold that finally caused his death, in 1831. The State gave to the Academy 640 acres of land, in the town of Canton, St. Lawrence county, to aid in the erection of the building which he purchased of the Trustees. He was for many years a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, and was, at the time of his death, one of the deacons of the Presbyterian church. He died greatly esteemed and lamented.
Ziba Knox, for several years a law partner of Dayan, was a native of Ver- mont. He came to Lowville about 1817, acquired his profession, and resided at this place, employed in legal practice and as a magistrate, until his death, which occurred September 6, 1868, at the age of 71 years. He was many years a Trustee of the Lowville Acade- my, and deserved the esteem in which he was generally held.
Vivaldi R. Martin, a native of Sarato- ga county, settled in Martinsburgh as a lawyer, from whence he removed to Lowville. He died August 8, 1850, aged 31 years. His brief career was brilliant and honorable. Possessing talents of a high order, fine oratorical powers and a thorough education, he would have adorned the highest station of public trust had his life been spared to the full term of human life.
Dr. David Perry was born in Prince- ton, Massachusetts, September 13, 1775, studied medicine with Dr. Westel Wil- loughby of Newport, New York, and settled in Denmark in August, 1806. In September, 1808, he married Miss Nancy Hulburt of Holland Patent, who died in November, 1812. In April, 1809, he settled in Lowville, (the first two years
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in company with Dr. Samuel Allen) and continued in the practice of medicine un- til November, 1858, when, in consequence of a paralytic attack, he was deprived of further means of usefulness in the pro- fession in which he had been eminently successful. Although stricken, and ren- dered helpless, he survived until Au- gust 31, 1863, when he died in Rutland, at the age of 83 years. His first wife died in November, 1812. The Rev. Isaac Clinton preached the funeral sermon from Thessalonians, 4: 13, which was printed in pamphlet form.
Dr. Perry was greatly respected by his professional brethren for the sound- ness of his judgement and the acuteness of his preception with regard to disease, and they uniformly regarded his diag- nosis and treatment as eminently gov- erned by a clear mind and an intelligent understanding.
He evinced a great fondness for rural pursuits, and in the intervals of an ex- tensive practice, found time to devote much attention to his orchard and gar- den, which were celebrated for the ex- tent and variety of their productions and the precise order in which every thing was kept. His orchard contained about seventy varieties of fruit.
His place in Lowville village is now owned by Leonard C. Davenport. Dr. William Thompson married a daughter of Dr. Perry, and died September 9, 1848, aged 45 years.
Andrew W. Doig, a native of Wash. ington county, is a son of Andrew Doig, who was born in Perthshire, Scotland, Feb. 29, 1776, removed to Lowville in 1809, and died March 11, 1854. He was many years a teacher and surveyor. A. W. Doig was elected County Clerk in 1825, for one term. He was in the As- sembly in 1832 and held the office of Surrogate from 1835 to 1840. He was elected by the Democratic party to the 26th and 27th Congresses (1839 to 1843)
while Lewis was united with Herkimer as the 16th district. In 1849, he joined the general exodus to California, and a few years after returned to Lowville, where he continued to reside till late in life. He then removed with his son-in- law, E. G. Morris, to Brooklyn, and died in Green Point, Brooklyn, (E. D.) July II, 1875. His remains were taken back to Lowville for burial. He was many years a Trustee of the Lowville Acad- emy. His brother, James Doig, was for- merly a merchant in Lowville, after- wards a ticket agent in the railroad office at Boonville.
John Doig, a half-brother of A. W. Doig, was a druggist in Lowville, and died November 15, 1867, aged 48 years. He was a Trustee of the Lowville Acad- emy, and one of the promoters of the organization of the Lowville Rural Cem- etery, and was almost the first one buried there.
Joseph A. Northrup, from Vermont, settled at an early period as a tanner and conducted this business and that of har- ness making many years. He was, we believe, the pioneer in these pursuits in this town, and died July 26, 1870, aged 86 years. General Northrup took an active interest in public affairs, and was a Trustee of the Lowville Academy, and a leading member in the Presbyterian Society. Being politically a decided abolitionist, at a time when that party numbered but a very few individuals, he was not honored by an election to sev- eral offices for which he stood a candi- date, and for which he was eminently qualified. He was influential in what- ever measures he undertook, and widely esteemed for his intelligence, sound judg- ment, and moral worth.
The Rev. Orrin Wilbur was a son of David Wilbur, one of the pioneers upon Stow's Square, in Lowville, and spent the best of his working days in this county. He was a Baptist clergyman
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many years; afterwards a book-seller, and for many years an Academy Trus- tee and Secretary of the Board. He re- signed this position November 5, 1866, and removed to Vineland, N. J., where he died March 31, 1878, aged 80 years. He expressed to the author of this vol- ume a few years before his death, an in- tention of making the Academy the leg- atee of a part of his estate, but this res- olution appears to have been changed before his death. His remains were brought to Lowville for interment.
Gen. Joseph A. Willard, was born at Hubbardton, Vt., April 26, 1803, and was a son of Francis Willard. He removed to Lowville upon becoming of age, hav- ing previously learned the trade of a clothier, and in later years was manufac- turer of stocking yarn at Lowville. In 1858-59, he represented Jefferson and Lewis counties in the Senate .- Murphy's Biographical Sketches of the Legislature, 1859, page 112.
He died in this town August 18, 1868, aged a little over sixty-five years.
Dr. Sylvester Miller, son of Seth Mil- ler, one of the first settlers at Constable- ville, settled in Lowville in 1817, having graduated with the first class in Fair- field, January 30, 1816. He was appoint- ed sheriff in 1821, and from 1823 to 1835, was surrogate. He was called from bed in the night, July 28, 1838, to visit the sick, and mistaking a door in his own house, fell headlong down the cel- lar stairs. His skull was fractured, and after lingering two days unconscious, he died. He was President of the Lewis County Medical Society at the time of his death.
Dr. Seth Adams, settled in the prac- tice of his profession at Lowville in the spring of 1826. He was a native of New Hampshire, and a graduate of the Fairfield Medical College. He contin- ued to practice his profession until a year or two before his death, which
was caused by cancer, April 7, 1873, at the age of 71 years. His wife, who was a sister of the Hon. Ela Collins, died April 13, 1879, at the age of 76 years. His son, Charles D. Adams, was long a lawyer in Lowville, but has for some years resided in Utica. He often attends the courts in the county, in which he has had much practice.
CENSUS OF ELECTORS IN LOWVILLE, IN 1807.
JONATHAN PATTEN, ROSWELL WATERMAN, S
Census Takers.
Abbot, Paul.
Cadey, Squire.
Allen, John.
Cadwell, James.
Allen, Wareham. Card, William.
Apley, Jacob.
Carter, David K.
Babcock, Simeon.
Carter, James B.
Bacon, Timothy.
Carter, Zeboam.
Bailey, James.
Chadwick, Aaron.
Bailey, Samuel.
Chadwick, Chester.
Bailey, William.
Chaddock, William.
Ball, Jonathan.
Clark, Caleb.
Ball, Jonathan, Jr.
Cobb, David.
Barber, Aaron.
Coffin, Moses.
Barnes, John.
Cole, Aaron.
Barnet, Jesse.
Conkey, John.
Barnet, Robert.
Conyne, Abraham.
Basset, Baurachiah.
Cook, Alexander.
Basset, Mayhew.
Cook, Joseph.
Bates, William.
Cook, Nathan.
Daman, Joseph.
Bayford, Levi. Beemans, -
Danks, Selig.
Beement, Nathaniel.
Darrow, William. Davenport, Benjamin.
Benjamin, Jesse.
Bennett,Christopher B. Davenport, Billa.
Blackman, Samuel.
Bliss, Henry.
Demmick, Jacob.
Boman, John.
Dickerson, Morris.
Boshart, Garret.
Boshart, Jacob.
Dodge, Alvin. Dodge, Amasa.
Bostwick, Isaac W.
Dodge, Sacket.
Bosworth, Constant.
Dunham, Aaron.
Bosworth, Mather.
Dunham, Nathaniel.
Bromley, Benjamin.
Durrin, Noah.
Buell, Bela.
Eager, Fortunatus.
Buel, Joseph.
Ellis, John.
Buel, Putman.
Burr, Joab.
Felt, Joshua.
Burr, Josiah.
Fenton, Aaron.
Files, Henry.
Bush, Osem.
Finch, Preceived.
Bush, Zadock.
Foot, Anson.
Bates, Joel.
Danks, Samuel.
Davenport, Charles.
Bohall, John.
Dickenson, Lemuel.
Ensign, Seymour.
Bush, Jonathan.
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French, Cliff.
Porter, Daniel.
Wage, Ebenezer. Wilbur, David.
Gillet, Reuben.
Prentice, John.
Wales, William. Wilcox, Adam.
Gillett, Samuel.
Prentice, Nathaniel.
Waterman, Roswell.
Wilcox, Jesse.
Glord, James.
Prentice, Roswell.
Weed, Levi. Wilcox, Roswell.
Glord, James, Jr.
Putney, Reuben.
Weller, Silas. Williams, Absalom.
Green, Silas.
Ranson, William.
Wellman, Barnabas. Williams, John.
Harger, Noah M.
Reed, John.
Hart, Jesse.
Rice, Abner.
Hillman, Jerah.
Richmond, Galen.
Hillman, William.
Riley, David.
Hills, Ebenezer.
Rogers, Bela.
Hitchcock, Jesse.
Rogers, John.
Hoadley, Jacob.
Rogers, Jonathan.
Hooker, Nicholas.
Rogers Robert.
Hoskins, Erastus.
Root, Salmon.
Houks, Henry.
Rosebeck, Henry.
Hulbert, Joshua.
Rowley, Nathan.
Jackson, George.
Sacket, William.
Jackson, William.
Scott, Enos.
Kelley, Daniel. King, Ezra.
Searles, Elipas.
King, Reuben.
Sexton, Charles.
Kitts, Jacob.
Shaver, Andrew.
Kitts, John.
Shaver, Henry.
Kitts, John, 2d.
Shaw, Philip.
Kitts, John, 3d.
Shaw, Philip, Jr.
Kitts, Peter.
Shull, Conradt.
Knight, Olney.
Shull, John.
Lane, Gad.
Shull, John, Jr.
Lane, Hosea.
Shull, William.
Lanpher, Pardon.
Sigourney, Andrew.
Lanpher, Paul.
Sigourney, Anthony.
Leonard, James H.
Sigourney, Charles.
Leonard, Stephen.
Smith, John. Smith, Thad.
Livingston, Richard.
Snell, Adam F. Snell, John.
Loveland, Nathan.
Ludenton, Daniel.
Spafford, John.
McCarty, Langford.
Spafford, John, Jr.
McDowell, Robert.
Merrils, Calvin.
Merrils Reuben.
Stanton, Joseph. . Stanton, Joshua. Stanton, William. Stephens, Elisha, Jr. Stephens, Ira.
Montgomery, Hugh. More Apollos. Morton, Elihu.
Stephens, James.
Morton, Elihu, Jr.
Stephens, James, Jr.
Murphy, Francis.
Stephens, Rufus.
Murray, Henry.
Stephens, Rufus, Jr.
Newton, Asa.
Stickney, Heman.
Nichols, Samuel.
Taylor, Chapman. Thrall, Ezekiel. Thrall, Jesse.
Northrup, Joseph A. Obeds Michael. Parks, Elijah.
Thomson, Edward. Toping, Jared.
Patten, Jonathan.
Turner, Peter.
Perry, Isaac.
Turner, Richard.
Perry, Samuel.
Vannatta, Peter.
Plank, Lovell.
Vannatta, Samuel.
Plank, Zebadiah.
Vannatta, Samuel, Jr.
MINERAL WEALTH OF LOWVILLE.
In December, 1828, a vein of galena, calcite, fluor spar and sulphuret of iron, was discovered on the south branch of the creek, about half a mile above Low- ville village, which soon became widely celebrated as a silver mine. A company was formed, and a small smelting house was erected near the spot, but we are not informed that large dividends were made, or that the stock ever found its way to the Wall street market. This locality is worthy of especial notice by mineralogists, from the beautiful crys- talized specimens of green fluor spar which it has produced. The late Luke Wilder,* explored the vein for this min- eral with great success. The mineral was indeed fair to look upon, and while fresh, made a splendid object for the cabinet; but the green transparent spar, was unfortunately underlaid by a stra- tum of sulphuret of iron of efflorescent tendency, and presently crumbled into " dust and ashes."t
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